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Happy Haiku Friday everyone!

It’s a happy day indeed. I don’t know how many of you are aware of the ominous threat to Florida the last couple of days. A monstrous category 4 storm, ‘Hurricane Mathew‘ threatened to pummel the south eastern coast of the US and at one point CNN and The Weather Channel put it’s projection right over the town where I live. Needless to say, yesterday was a scary day for me and my family.

We prepared as best we could but if a storm this large and powerful barrels over your area it’s catastrophic no matter what you do. Mathew was headed straight for us and then later yesterday evening it increased in speed and moved toward the west changing it’s trajectory further north and we ended up getting some wind and lots of rain but nothing severe. We’ve had more flooding and down trees with regular lightning storms. Dade and Broward counties definitely ‘dodged the bullet’.

My prayers go out to those counties and states north of us that are still in the path of Mathew.

Lark and Rush are this week’s prompt words chosen by Ronovan Hester of Ronovan Writes.

I am happy you dodged this monster storm! We only have a bit of wind here on the west coast, but my son’s family evacuated from Jacksonville yesterday…they are on an unplanned vacation in Mobile Alabama for three days. We are hoping for no severe damage to their home as the storm seems to stay just off shore.

Thank you. I’ve been through a couple of bad ones. I didn’t want to go through another and this one was a really bad one––scarier than most. Florida has not seen a hurricane in 11 years but it feels like it was just the other day that Hurricane Wilma hit.

Phew!! Vashti must of been so frightening, my friends are good thanks and were not affected, sigh of relief but it breaks my heart re all the damage and devastation and loss of life especially in Haiti 🇭🇹, special hugs to you Vashti X X X

I’m happy you’re safe. I’ve been watching the storm progress on TV. When I lived in S TX as a kid I remember preparing for the hurricanes. We only had to evacuate the house once. Good way to use your Haiku this week.

I am glad the storm missed you! I can’t imagine what it would feel like to batten down and wait for something so destructive. The worst we’ve had is faint tornado warnings and I ‘ve thought about where I would hide but it’s never come to that.

Thank goodness you’re safe Vashti – that must have been so frightening. Many years ago experienced a small scale tornado whilst on holiday in Ibiza. It was miniscule in comparison to a large twister but still did some damage and was frightening. Though my hubby behaved like one of those storm chasers snapping photos of it. Perhaps it’s just as well that we don’t live in the US!

Thank you Marje. That’s so sweet. It was a frightening experience but it could have been worse. Tornados actually scare me more than hurricanes because there’s no warning. Natural disasters happen all over the world; tsunamis, earthquakes, landslides . . . 🙂